I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The only certainty is death.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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